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Assistant Professor Brad Greiman in the Department of Work and Human Resource Education comments on the new aggreement between CEHD and the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences.
Feb. 16-24 is National FFA Week
Agri News (Minn.) Feb. 19, 2007
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Professor Theodore Lewis (Work and Human Resource Education) published an editorial in Sunday's Trinidad and Tobago Express.
Put down your guns this Christmas
Trinidad and Tobago Express (Trinidad) Dec. 16, 2007
Congratulations to undergraduate Aurea Kennelly, a business marketing education and human resource development double major and student worker in the College's Undergraduate Student Information Center, for being selected to attend the Diversity Business Careers Forum in Chicago, Illinois this November. The Diversity Business Careers Forum is organized by a consortium of Big 10 and other midwestern universities to introduce students to financial, banking, marketing, and consulting career opportunities. Aurea is one of just 10 students chosen to attend the Diversity Business Career Forum.
Alum Carl Aakre (M.Ed. '04), an agri-science teacher at Perham High School in Perham, has been named Teacher of the Year in Minnesota in the 12th annual Wal-Mart State Teacher of the Year program. Aakre was honored at a special surprise ceremony at the school, and in his honor the school received a $10,000 grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation.
This is not the first such honor for Carl. In 2005 he was named Agri-science Teacher of the Year by the National Future Farmers of America Association. Congratulations on all your accomplishments, Carl!
Fox News reported yesterday that Ann Miron, an agricultural education major, has been named the 54th Princess Kay of the Milky Way for the Minnesota State Fair. As part of her duties, Ann will serve as the official ambassador for the Minnesota dairy industry. She will also spend about eight hours having her likeness carved out of a 90-pound block of butter. Congratulations Ann!
UPDATE: Here are more links to video footage of Ann winning her crown, as well as a Star Tribune article about her experience having her face carved in butter.
Professor Theodore Lewis (Work and Human Resource Education) presented a professional development seminar titled "Teachers as Agents of Change" to teachers and school supervisors on the island of Tobago, on Tuesday, July 24. The seminar was organized jointly by the Ministry of Education of Trinidad and Tobago, and the alumni association of Mausica Teachers' College, Lewis' alma mater.
Professor Theodore Lewis (work and human resource education), gave a graduate seminar at Tufts University's Center for Engineering Educational Outreach on May 7, titled "Technology Education: The Challenge of Representing Engineering Knowledge in the Schools." This presentation was part of a series in which speakers from the national community are invited based on graduate students' requests.
Theodore Lewis, professor in the Department of Work and Human Resource Education, was the keynote speaker at the Faculty of Humanities and Schools of Education Biennial Conference held at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, May 23-26. The title of Lewis' speech was "Transforming Education in the Caribbean: Are We Ready for Change?" Lewis also presented a paper titled "Reconceptualizing Vocational Education and Training in Caribbean Schooling" at this conference.
Earlier this year, Gary McLean, professor of work and human resource education, presented the 2007 CEHD Alumni Society's Distinguished International Alumni award to Ahmad Ajarimah (Ph.D., '98) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Professor James R. Stone III (WHRE), along with researchers from other universities, conducted the symposium “The Role of CTE in Achieving the Goals of No Child Left Behind” at the 2007 American Educational Research Association meeting.
James R. Stone III, shown right, and Research Associate Oscar A. Aliaga (WHRE) are listed in the National Longitudinal Surveys annotated bibliography for their work with the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. They conduct continued research on the impact of career and technical education on students’ school experience. The National Longitudinal Surveys are conducted by the Bureau of Labor of Statistics in the US Department of Labor.
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Oscar A. Aliaga, research associate in the Department of Work and Human Resources, presented the paper “The impact of career and technical education on dropouts,” co-authored with Professor James R. Stone III (WHRE), shown right, at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AREA) in Chicago. Both were awarded the Outstanding Research Paper award by the AERA Career and Technical Education Special Interest Group for this paper.